MARIO CHALMERS RUMORS

In an attempt to trim the roster down to 15 players the Miami Heat have made moves to send Shabazz Napier to Orlando and Zoran Dragic to Boston. With the formal release of Henry Walker coming next the Heat roster will stand at 14. Once the Heat formally sign 2nd round draft pick Josh Richardson the roster will consist of 15 players under contract. Since 15 players is the max that...

Free agency is all but over, but the Philadelphia 76ers are still roughly $21 million below the salary cap. That's no surprise. Philly's general manager Sam Hinkie has no interest in winning games next season, and so long as he carries out this long-term rebuild, his bosses don't want to spend more money than they have to.But another advantage to having lots of cap space is it puts...

He's a seven-year veteran. He's won two rings with the Miami Heat. At this point in his career, Mario Chalmers has been around the block a couple times. He gets how the NBA operates.So when reports continue to circulate that Miami is looking to trade Chalmers in order to alleviate its luxury tax burden, Chalmers understands. He's not going to overreact. As he told KUSports.com, ...

The Miami Heat are “aggresively” trying to trade point guards Shabazz Napier and Mario Chalmers, according to a report from Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald.
An NBA general manager says that Napier and Chalmers are two players the Heat have been most aggressively attempting to trade. He also notes that the Heat have been more assertive in trying to trade ‘Rio due to his...

With how stacked the Miami Heat’s roster is going to be next season, point guard Mario Chalmers may find himself playing the part of team plumber. As it turns out, he’s really buying into the role. The two-time NBA champion took to Instagram Friday to show off his new tattoo: iconic Nintendo character Super Mario,...Read More

It will be hard for anyone to forget Mario Chalmers' first name from now on.
The Heat guard just got a big tattoo of Mario, of Super Mario Brothers fame, palming a basketball on his arm.
According to the caption, Chalmers is not done with the ink, either.
We can only hope Chalmers completes with sleeve with more video game characters.

It looks like there's official confirmation that Miami Heat point guard Mario Chalmers is cool with being linked to his slightly more famous counterpart, the video game protagonist Mario -- and it comes in the form of a pretty elaborate tattoo.There were indications of Chalmers' appreciation for his pixelated brethren back in 2013, when the Harlem Shake was still a thing and Chalmers...

Even though there are reports buzzing around that the Miami Heat are not trading PG Mario Chalmers there are still a bunch of sources saying that the Heat plan to move him elsewhere. In moving Chalmers it lets the Heat drop the 4.3 million they would owe him for the 2015-2016 season and it could help the Heat from getting a tax that could be 3 times that of what Chalmers is...

Finding a way to fashion a respectable roster while using up its salary cap money on just four players is a predicament the Miami Heat finds itself in as it gets set to prepare for the 2015-16 season.
The quartet of Chris Bosh ($22.million), Dwyane Wade ($20 million), Goran Dragic ($18 million) and Luol Deng ($10 million) will provide the top-heavy portion of the 2015-16 Heat roster...

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